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benefit, (6) coercive sense of obligation to do so The 

 latter driven into the primeval man from fear of visible 

 ruler, of invisible ruler, and of society It was then an 

 illusion Evolutionist very familiar with the primitive 

 savage man How will the sense of obligation be main- 

 tained in highly evolved man ? Because the good is 

 always pleasure to some one somewhere But why sacri- 

 fice present pleasure ? If sense of duty be maintained, 

 we must recognise the existence of a moral nature 3. 

 What chief end does evolution set before man ? Adjust- 

 ment to environment, and consequent fulness of life But 

 -equilibration is beginning of death For the individual it 

 has no significance Struggle soon ended 4. The ethical 

 doctrine of evolution leaves man without effective moral 

 guidance Its precepts not universal ever changing 4. 

 It is a system of hedonism moral quality confounded 

 with the consequences of actions Different light shed on 

 duty if we hold that man has a moral nature and is im- 

 mortal The ethical teaching of evolution has no solid 

 basis and no imperativeness, .... 259 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



CREATION. 



To deny creation is to modify profoundly the idea of God 

 The idea of creation alleged to be unthinkable Lange 

 affirms the same The edge of the criticism turned against 

 Mr. Spencer The conception proved to be thinkable 

 The possibility of the fact denied (1) God may be con- 

 ceived as the Absolute, His activity immanent (2) It 

 may be alleged that He could not have created the exist- 

 ing universe that a spirit could not create matter 

 The marvellous subtilty of matter Thought cannot pass 

 in known continuity from power immanent in God, to 

 power manifested in the universe Passes by faith 

 Creation congruous with experience (1) We must believe 

 in a First Cause (2) In a Cause the origin of law and 

 -order (3) The author of self-conscious intelligence (4) 



